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Being paid to play video games.

In late 2010, my friend suggested I purchase and play a video game with him, that game was Starcraft II. At that time, being a broke student I couldn't afford to buy it although I wanted it. I had heard about this game originally from reading a Cracked article about Starcraft in Korea. I found it fascinating that people actually played video games for a living, I knew that it existed in rare circumstances, years before when I was still in high school I remember downloading a video through Xbox Live of Fatal1ty , about how he had managed to get sponsorship deals and products because of his excellent performance in tournaments. My friend decided to go ahead and buy me the game which was incredibly kind of him. I started to play and I was absolutely terrible, I had never played an real time strategy beyond the odd command and conquer campaign when I was younger but being determined I stuck through it and managed to get to the higher leagues. At this point, Starcraft 2 w